The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT BRIEF MEANING OF TWENTY-TVVO KEYS ο. IF the question refers to spiritual matters, the Fool means idea, thought, spirituality, that which endeavours to transcend Earth. But if question is material, it means folly, stupidity, eccentricity, or even mania. L Skill, wisdom, adaptation, craft, cunning, or occult wisdom or power. 2. Change, alternation, increase and decrease, fluctuation; whether for good or evil depends on the dignity. 3. Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success. But with very bad dignity it means luxury, dissipation. 4. War, conquest, victory, strife, ambition. 5. Divine wisdom, manifestation, explanation, teaching, occult force voluntarily invoked. 6. Inspiration (passive, mediumistic), motive power, action. 7. Triumph, victory, health (sometimes unstable). 8. Eternal justice. Strength and force, but arrested as in act ofjudgment. May mean law, trial, etc. 9. Wisdom from on high. Active divine inspiration. Sometimes “ unexpected current." Ιο᾿Good fortune, happiness (within bounds). Intoxica- tion of success. IL Courage, strength, fortitude, power passing on to action. Obstinacy. 12. Enforced sacrifice, punishment, loss, fatal and not voluntary, suffering. 13. Time, age, transformation, change involuntary (as 203